Word: program
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...often difficult for partisans of particular educational programs to remember that experiments are not, per se, good things. But the Government-Economics joint tutorial program initiated in Adams and Quincy this fall is among the most promising ideas to come along in recent years...
...program is encouraging partly because it began without faculty legislation, working within the framework of the existing departments. A technique of drawing on a variety of fields to study individual problems rather than attempting to master formal academic disciplines seems even more appealing when it comes from within the departments. In itself, the combined tutorial testifies that the departments are both able and willing to broaden their academic programs...
...establishment of House Fellows is a program whose merit is undeniable, but whose future is necessarily uncertain. The plan raises 21 present Associates of the Houses to the office of Fellow in order, in President Pusey's words, to "strengthen the Houses by bringing to the management of its affairs the direct interest and insights of a number of men from many departments." The exact duties of the Fellows are to be determined by the individual masters and Fellows, and this necessary indefiniteness is the danger of the program...
...danger that the office will degenerate into a sinecure is real. These possibilities cannot be codified as a statement of exact duties, and the varying needs of the different Houses make the Fellow's role even vaguer. The success of the program will therefore depend entirely on the vigor and interest of the Master and Fellows in each House, their willingness to seek out ideas and to experiment. To help the Fellows establish a definition of the Office, they should be formed as a distinct body that would coordinate their activities and pass on ideas...
Last Friday night Joan Baez and Eric von Schmidt sang folk songs in Agassiz Theater, under the aegis of the Harvard Liberal Union. Young Liberals hoping to hear even one "song of social protest" were disappointed, for the program was arranged under the widely-held and peculiar assumption that everything sung by a folk singer (even essentially conservative songs like many of the ones Miss Baez sings) partake in some way of the yeasty liberal mythos...